Aurora (13)

We'll be addressing the support changes in FF13 during the FF12 cycle with bug 741004 – Create a hotfix add-on to communicate the FF13 de-support

Nightly (14)

Do you use or want to use data collected by Telemetry? We're starting to work on the Telemetry dashboard UX. Please provide your thoughts on the Telemetry dashboard, what works, what doesn't, what you've find useful in bug 736484 or contact Lawrence Mandel.

The flash update caused "your browser is blocking flash" errors on Yahoo/AT&T mail. This has since been resolved (thanks kev!)

Mobile

UX & User Research

User Research
The UR team will be conducting a longitudinal study to understand how people use our new Search Tabs feature. Search tabs allows you to search for something, and see results from various sources. For example, if you search for "harry potter," you will see the Google results for "harry potter" with icons down the left hand side of your page. Currently, the icons are for Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, and Wikipedia. If you click on the Yahoo icon, the main screen will change from Google to Yahoo, and you can see the results there. The idea is that the search tabs provide more data to the user, and users will see that some searches are better on some search engines than on others. It's a way to help open the web back up during the search process.

Overall Study Objectives

Understand the situations when people use tabbed search, their reactions to using tabbed search, and what they do with the information after searching

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Amazon

Amazon released an update for the Silk Browser included with the Kindle Fire. It includes a "Reading View" feature: "When invoked by the customer, Silk will load the body of the page in a reading-optimized, single screen view (even for multi-page articles). The full page is still available in the background, allowing the reader to easily toggle back to a traditional view to see other interesting features on the page." Some early reviews have been mixed, noting that it sometimes renders multi-page articles in the wrong order.

Facebook

Microsoft

Another post describes how pinned sites will work with the Windows 8 start screen

Adobe

Adobe released an updated version of Flash, the last standalone version for the Linux platform, that requires that developers pay a 9% royalty on revenues over $50,000 for applications that make use of two new performance APIs. Gamasutra published a good summary of how Flash developers feel about it.

Apple

Opera

WebM

The WebM project announced that more chip vendors have introduced hardware support for the video protocol, including Rockchip and ST-Ericsson. Smart TVs with full HD WebM support are coming to the market from LG Electronics this spring, with other OEMs following soon after.